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31 December Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Statement, Revoke planned international NGO ban, humanitarian leaders urge Israeli authorities (IASC) Statement attributable to the Spokesperson for...

monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites, publications and information products

With seven million hectares of forest – roughly the size of the Republic of Ireland – destroyed every year, the need to address biodiversity...

Survivors of atrocities in Myanmar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq, Palestine and Sudan gathered in The Hague at the end of January to reflect on...

To mark the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (27 January), the United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC), in cooperation...

The United Nations’ “Shared Lives, Shared Future” photo exhibition was officially inaugurated in London on 17 January 2026 at Methodist Central Hall, as part...

Powerful forces are lining up to undermine global cooperation, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned at a landmark event commemorating the UN’s 80th anniversary in...

To mark the 80th anniversary of the United Nations, the UN has launched a global photo exhibition entitled Shared Lives, Shared Future. The exhibition...

As displacement globally remains at high levels, driven by conflict and persecution, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, calls on the Cypriot and Irish Presidencies of the Council of the...

Eighty years ago, the first-ever meeting of the United Nations General Assembly took place in the United Kingdom. On 10 January 1946, delegates gathered...

monthly issue of the UNRIC Info Point & Library Newsletter featuring new UN websites, publications and information products. Topic of the Month: UN Observances

As we enter the new year, the world stands at a crossroads. Chaos and uncertainty surround us.  Division. Violence. Climate breakdown. And systemic violations of international...

How is the Secretary-General of the United Nations selected and appointed? Here you can find a selection of online resources.

Over the past two months, about 750 students from schools in Belgium, the United Kingdom and Greece were visited by officials from UN entities...

The Government of Bangladesh, the Embassy of Ukraine, the Embassy of Sweden, and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on 3 December held...